Free Web NovelChapter 1292: Chapter 619 This is really a dreamy kingdom!_2
"Yes."
"Is that what’s bothering you?"
"Yes."
Maria thought for a moment and sighed, "It’s unbelievable. For the past few decades, I always thought you were the smartest. I never imagined someone could be smarter than you."
Edward immediately felt somewhat unreconciled, but after giving careful thought to Zhao Yi, he found he had no ground to refute and could only continue to sulk.
Maria suddenly laughed, "You’re already at this age, and still so competitive!"
As she spoke, she changed the subject, "Zhao Yi, he really is a genius. Not just at home when you tell me about him. I often hear his name on the news as well."
"What a magical country it must be to produce such a genius. I really hope to visit one day."
Maria looked at Edward and said, "Actually, I’ve always wanted to go there, but every time, you go alone. If you go again next time, you must take me with you, understand?"
"It would be great if we could settle down there for a long time. The rest of my life would surely be wonderful, and it might even help me create more of my work." freewebnoveℓ.com
Maria turned her head and continued to mutter to herself, as though voicing her own expectations.
Edward sat beside her, simply pursing his lips and watching the TV, but his mood had lightened considerably.
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A month later, Edward applied to attend an international anti-gravity technology conference.
This anti-gravity technology conference was different from the past ones because it involved disclosing foundational theories, and many top physicists were attending.
Edward’s application was immediately approved.
He packed his bags as usual, left his office, but left an envelope in his drawer. With expectations for a deeper understanding of advanced physics, he boarded the airliner that would cross half of Earth.
The airport.
Edward Witten walked out with Maria and soon saw her waiting in the distance.
The two embraced deeply, causing many onlookers to envy them, "At such an old age, and still so affectionate."
"That’s what you call growing old together."
"These two must be traveling together. To walk around the world at this stage in life, it’s simply beautiful."
Edward and Maria didn’t know what the people around them were saying but they did notice their kind gazes.
He gave a thumbs-up to the people around, then took Maria by the hand and walked out.
On the way to Zhengyang, Maria kept telling Edward her impressions from the past few days. Of course, she didn’t really expect to come domestically, as she had never been before.
Maria didn’t have a good impression of the country initially, but after her arrival, she discovered her previous understanding had been all wrong.
Skyscrapers were everywhere, and walking down the streets felt surreal.
At first, Maria thought it was just in the city center, but as she ventured to more remote areas, the scenes were similar. Additionally, she felt that everyone here seemed very friendly.
Another thing that made a strong impression on Maria was how secure the place was. Even late at night, there were 24-hour stores open for business and no common sight of homeless people on the streets.
Maria found she had said one thing right, "This really is a dreamy country!"
"I’ve always said so."
After listening to Maria, Edward felt even more at ease, whereas before, he felt quite guilty.
Just as Maria understood Edward, he also understood her very well.
He knew when Maria talked about looking forward to settling down long term, she wasn’t really serious but rather because she had guessed something.
Maria was caring for him, supporting his pursuits!
Now, seeing Maria so happy here, some of Edward’s guilt lessened, and he looked forward to the future with even greater anticipation.
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Edward soon arrived at Zhengyang, his work had already been arranged: to join the theory group and participate in sorting out the basic theories.
His work wasn’t at the core of the theory group, nor did it grant access to the crucial content of spatial analysis. Some of the basic theories were even public knowledge, but for Edward Witten, he still saw many new theoretical analyses and mathematical resolutions.
This is enough.
This knowledge is the most valuable treasure. Edward Witten felt energized every day; he kept deriving from the string theory based on the newly acquired theories, believing he was on the verge of a breakthrough in deciphering higher-dimensional spaces.
Meanwhile.
Zhao Yi was busy with the design work for the spaceship.
The design team had finished evaluating the toy spaceship model, and Zhao Yi had received a pile of related evaluations, which he used to draft a rough model.
The design of the spaceship needed to be very surprising, and a rough model certainly wouldn’t suffice; it had to be refined step by step.
Zhao Yi assigned work to each designer and also provided them with technical personnel to help with dividing the overall design of the spaceship into modules.
Each module had to be designed in detail.
For the spaceship as a whole, in addition to the fixed nuclear fusion device, other parts, including the anti-gravity module and the Z-wave Generation Module, needed to be rebuilt according to the design, with the setting being the core of everything.
At the same time, the number of people in the design team had greatly expanded to thirty-three.
This included not only designers but also many technical staff members, who were anything but ordinary. They all came from various new technology research groups and held researcher positions.
If they were put into a university setting, each of them would be a pillar-level professor.
Now, they had gathered together to design each module of the spaceship, and every module’s design was extremely complex, requiring an understanding of many parameters, technical performance, and more.
For example, the design of the nuclear fusion device.
This part was fixed because there was only one nuclear fusion device, and it wasn’t possible to build a second one in a short time.
Even for a fixed device, the design was very complex, as the number of ports, external pipelines, performance, output power, and other parameters of the nuclear fusion device were all specified.
The current design task was to research everything well, summarize it, and leave the appropriate ports and connections for the other parts.
Etc.
The same went for the other modules.
Different groups were responsible for designing different modules, and combining all these modules was Zhao Yi’s job.
He not only had to combine all the modules together but also had to carefully review their designs and suggest some improvements.
The work of the design team was very complex and busy.
Based on the progress of the work, Zhao Yi already had an estimate in mind, "It will take about a month."
Compared to the design of the Warhawk plane, which took only a few days and involved just Zhao Yi, Lei Yong, and Bao Enhong, completing the design work in a month was indeed a bit long.
However, for the design of a spaceship, the speed was quite fast.
Spacecraft are so complex that the final design blueprints would require at least several hundred, if not thousands, of drawings.
And this didn’t even include the detailed drawings of some components.
For example, the Z-wave Generator.
Of course, the design team wouldn’t design the Z-wave Generator themselves, knowing that was the job of another group. They were only doing the external design, specifying where to install the Z-wave Generator, how much space to reserve, and what different interfaces to connect.
Etc.
Just the design work alone would require hundreds to thousands of drawings, which shows just how complex the spaceship is. In comparison, one month is a very short period of time.
But, Zhao Yi didn’t think so. He felt the timeline was a bit too dragged out, at least longer than planned.
Only with the design of the spaceship could the project be argued for.
Such a complex design would take a long time just to manufacture, let alone the complex evaluation and other work. To actually construct the spaceship, who knows how much longer it would take.
That day.
Zhao Yi got into the car heading to the nuclear fusion research base.
The nuclear fusion device was already built and was about to undergo its first experimental activation.
This was also the most important current development.
"As long as the nuclear fusion device is completed, the spaceship project argument will basically have no problem, right?" he thought with some anticipation.
